ProfessorKirrie Ballard
Professor of Speech Motor Control and Disorders
Faculty of Medicine and Health
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- Professor of Speech Motor Control and DisordersFaculty of Medicine and Health
RESEARCH INTERESTs
- Speech Motor Control and Learning
- Acquired and Childhood Apraxia of Speech
- Primary Progressive Aphasia and Apraxia of Speech
- Neuroimaging and vocal tract imaging in these populations
- Prosody (Lexical Stress) development and disorders
Professor Ballard is a member of the Communication Sciences and Disorders team.
FUNDED RESEARCH
- GRANTEnhancing Community Engagement in TBI Rehabilitation Through theSocial Brain Toolkit: A Framework for Implementation and ImpactDepartment of Health and Aged Care (Federal - administered by NHMRC)1 Jun 2025 - 31 Dec 2027People funded by this grant:
- Rietdijk R,
- Brassel S,
- Lim R,
- Brunner M,
- Elbourn E
- GRANTAs we speak: Unmasking speech changes earlier in the course of diseaseNational Health and Medical Research Council17 Dec 2024People funded by this grant:
- Ballard K
- GRANTDevelopmental trajectory of tongue control for speech with real-time MRIAustralian Research Council (ARC)31 Dec 2022 - 30 Dec 2026People funded by this grant:
- Ballard K,
- Jin C
- GRANTWe hear your voice A consumer-codesigned program to customize, evaluate and implement speech recognition technology, for people with chronic degenerative neurologic diseases.Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal - administered by NHMRC)1 Apr 2022 - 31 Mar 2028People funded by this grant:
- Loy C
- GRANTSpeech recognition adaptation for low resource populationsAustralian Research Council (ARC)22 Feb 2021 - 21 Feb 2025People funded by this grant:
- Ballard K,
- Ahmed B,
- Epps J
- GRANTAusKidTalk: An Australian Children's Speech CorpusAustralian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2024People funded by this grant:
- Arciuli J,
- Ballard K,
- Baker E
- GRANTThe effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) and exercise for dysphagia in adults with multiple sclerosis; a randomised trialMultiple Sclerosis Research Australia1 Jan 2018People funded by this grant:
- Ballard K,
- Bogaardt HH
- GRANTApraxia World: An interactive, technologybasedcomprehensive tool for remote speech therapy of childhood apraxia of speechQatar National Research Fund1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2019People funded by this grant:
- Gutierrez-Osuna R,
- Ahmed B,
- Ballard K
- GRANTDifferentiation and treatment for nonfluent variants of Primary Progressive AphasiaDVC Research1 Jan 2014People funded by this grant:
- Ballard K,
- Leyton C
- GRANTDiscovering the Developmental Trajectory of Lexical Stress ProductionAustralian Research Council (ARC)31 Aug 2013 - 31 Dec 2017People funded by this grant:
- Ballard K,
- Vogel AP,
- Arciuli J
- GRANTAustralian Research Council1 Dec 2012 - 30 Jun 2017People funded by this grant:
- Ballard K
- GRANTMobile Infrastructure and Automated Tools for the Monitoring and Treatment of Childhood Apraxia of SpeechQatar National Research Fund15 Jan 2012 - 20 Oct 2015People funded by this grant:
- Ahmed B,
- Ballard K
- GRANTChildhood Apraxia of Speech Assessment International ConsortiumDVC International4 Jan 2012People funded by this grant:
- Zmarich C,
- Ballard K,
- Maassen B,
- Namasivayam A,
- Strand E
- GRANTConverting thoughts to speech: A new model of human speech production through computational modeling and human functional brain imagingAustralian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2012People funded by this grant:
- Ballard K
- GRANTThe Development of Speech Production: Focus on ProsodyDVC Research1 Jan 2012People funded by this grant:
- Ballard K,
- Vogel AP,
- Arciuli J
- GRANTAccurate differentiation of acquired speech and language disorders for positive rehabilitation outcomesNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2014People funded by this grant:
- Robin DA,
- Ballard K,
- O'Dwyer N,
- McNeil M
- GRANTProgressive aphasia and amyloid deposition: a multidisciplinary approach to improving dementia diagnosisNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2012People funded by this grant:
- Ballard K,
- Piguet O
- GRANTPhenotypic profiles of families with a speech-sound disorder of suspected genetic origin: Speech, oromotor, language, literacy, and cognitive characteristicsSydney Children’s Hospital Foundation1 Jan 2008People funded by this grant:
- Baker E,
- Ballard K
- GRANTDevelopment of biofeedback treatments for motor speech disordersUniversity of Sydney1 Jan 2007People funded by this grant:
- Ballard K
- GRANTTemporal coordination in the motor speech systemNational Institutes of Health13 Feb 2004 - 31 Jan 2007People funded by this grant:
- Ballard K
- GRANTAn Investigation into the Language and Cognitive Phenotype of Singaporean Preschoolers with Nonsyndromic Cleft Lip and/or PalateSingapore Health ServicesPeople funded by this grant:
- Purcell A,
- Ballard K
- GRANTRepeated syllable treatment for childhood apraxia of speechCumberland Research Grant SchemePeople funded by this grant:
- McCabe P,
- Ballard K
- GRANTSearching for the cause of stuttering: Mouth asymmetry in young childrenUniversity of SydneyPeople funded by this grant:
- Packman A,
- O'Dwyer N,
- Ballard K,
- Lincoln M
